Flight navigation/moving map software for Android System

On Jan 3, 4:56*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:

Honeycomb is going to make a significant difference as its the enabler
for a whole Android tablet ecosystem and it makes sense for Android
developers to target that platform. The only reason not to now is
Honeycomb is not in their hands. And developers may well want to take
advantage of some of the Honeycomb goodies in future... but yes there
is nothing core per-se that prevents porting to non-Honeycomb
platforms today but compared to what is expected to arrive soon I
would skip the current stuff in a hearbeat...

I'd love to know where you're getting that information from --
everything I've heard from Google employees has been that Honeycomb is
just the codename for 2.4, and that the core apps (messaging,
contacts) will be de-coupled from the OS and put in the market so that
there can be a phone version and a tablet version of each.

Cheers,

Rob

On Jan 3, 9:26*pm, "Rob.Russell" wrote:
On Jan 3, 4:56*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:

Honeycomb is going to make a significant difference as its the enabler
for a whole Android tablet ecosystem and it makes sense for Android
developers to target that platform. The only reason not to now is
Honeycomb is not in their hands. And developers may well want to take
advantage of some of the Honeycomb goodies in future... but yes there
is nothing core per-se that prevents porting to non-Honeycomb
platforms today but compared to what is expected to arrive soon I
would skip the current stuff in a hearbeat...

I'd love to know where you're getting that information from --
everything I've heard from Google employees has been that Honeycomb is
just the codename for 2.4, and that the core apps (messaging,
contacts) will be de-coupled from the OS and put in the market so that
there can be a phone version and a tablet version of each.

Cheers,

Rob

Mmm ultimately there should be one version of apps (at least apps as
simple as contacts etc.) across both phone and tablet devices. One of
the publicly announced features of Honeycomb is "fragments" so
applications can refactor themselves to run on a tablet or phone
format device.

Given how tightly Google seems to have contained Honeycomb development
and third party access I'd be fairly surprised if Google employees are
giving lots of factual information to folks.

And yes "Honeycomb is just the codename for the next release of
Android" but the devil will be in the details of what's offered in
that release. Honeycomb is the release targeted at tablets, and is
obvious that the tablet manufacturers are scrambling to support
Honeycomb and that is where developers will want to move to. Stay
tuned to CES announcements. Google already sneaked a look at the
Motorola tablet (Honeycomb development reference) and Toshiba
announced their Honeycomb tablet today and CES has not even started.

Darryl

On Dec 26, 8:14*am, Stephen Michalik
wrote:
The new Samsung Galaxy Tablet uses the Android System. Do any of the
current flight software systems run on Android? If so which ones? How
well do they interface with the SN10 or 302 ? * How about the XCSoar
program in beta?

In measuring the Galaxy Tablet it is really only about 1.5 inches
taller and wider than my current 3955 setup in cradle. *Seems like a
good possibility for upgrading. Would be able to get satellite feeds
as well...

Steve
S9

It being a nice sunny day in Colorado, I strolled into a Best Buy and
took a look at the iPad and Galaxy. Both provide a passable web
browsing experience and little more. The clerk was unhappy I wanted
to see what they looked like in direct sunlight - for good reason -
they were unreadable.

If the obvious technical bugs can be worked out, devices resembling
these will be very useful. However, I suspect the market is looking
at them as "thin clients" for "cloud services". Just how 'thin' they
turn out to be will determine how useful they are to us.

I want a lot of computing power with robust 3rd party applications of
my choosing. I tried to search with Google on the Galaxy and got Bing
every time. It's browser refused to even admit Google existed. I
won't buy any device which limits free choice.

On Dec 26, 8:14*am, Stephen Michalik
wrote:
The new Samsung Galaxy Tablet uses the Android System. Do any of the
current flight software systems run on Android? If so which ones? How
well do they interface with the SN10 or 302 ? * How about the XCSoar
program in beta?

In measuring the Galaxy Tablet it is really only about 1.5 inches
taller and wider than my current 3955 setup in cradle. *Seems like a
good possibility for upgrading. Would be able to get satellite feeds
as well...

Steve
S9

I think 2011 will be the year of the tablet and will bring some very
interesting and affordable new options for computers and displays in
the cockpit. There are many low end 7" tablets available this year
already, it will only get more competitive in 2011.

Some things coming this next year:

1. There will be many new 7" display tablets. These will run the
latest Android and Windows Phone 7 operating systems.

2. Pixel Qi will show a new 7" screen in few weeks that should provide
much better daylight readable screens. The 10" screen is currently
available from Make.com and on the Notion Ink Adam (shipping in two
weeks) and I would guess the 7" will be available through make.com as
well in the near future.

3. Windows Phone 7 will be ported to the Tegra 2 chip set providing
options of operating systems with the same chip set.

I expect that SeeYou mobile will be ported to run on the Honeycomb
platform once it is released in mid January. From my experience and
communications I am afraid that WinPilot is in a death spiral and will
disappear soon.